Professional Yoga Therapist Certification: Module 8

Professional Yoga Therapist Certification: Module 8

Module 8 is an intensive on-site module that is part of the practical, applied lab portion of the Professional Yoga Therapist certification program. This course puts the lectures of Modules 1-7 into motion with application of the concepts learned in those pre-requisite distance modules.

Topics covered include:

• Biopsychosocial (BPS) model of assessment and application
• Interdisciplinary 10 Precept application and case study analysis
• Yoga posture, breath, and meditation prescription using Medical Therapeutic Yoga (MTY) methods (including mudras)

Clinical Objectives

1. Apply the 15 MTY precepts to your clinical demographic and practice in order to increase clinical efficacy and safety of yoga prescription in healthcare and wellness care.
2. Discuss the interrelationship of psychotherapy and rehabilitation in the clinical practice of MTY.
3. List public health and clinical practice implications of MTY practice.
4. Identify quantitative and qualitative characteristics of outcome measures used in PYT.
5. Demonstrate understanding of the FMA algorithm in the context of evaluation, diagnosis, and prescription in clinical practice.
6. Demonstrate multidisciplinary knowledge of indications and contraindications for practicing PYT Level I and II postures as prescriptive movement and/or manual therapy in medicine and rehabilitation.
7. Critically analyze physical yoga movement and respiratory therapies and their modifications in a lab setting.
8. Complete case studies via real time assessment with your peers using live models and/or case presentations.
9. Integrate cardiorespiratory principles into rehab practice in a lab setting.
10. Prescribe MTY sequences for individual and group-based therapy wellness and pathophysiological-based therapies.
11. Demonstrate knowledge of the guidelines to practice, teaching, manual cuing, and instruction in yoga postures, hand postures, breathing techniques, and meditation.
12. Integrate the scientific theories introduced in Modules 1-7 into practical clinical yoga prescription and practice.
13. Describe the code of ethics for becoming a Professional Yoga Therapist.
14. Practice the tenets of stabilization in the context of “pre-postures” and yoga postures as therapeutic exercise and intervention in an interactive lab setting.
15. Practice evidence-based yoga to address multi-joint and systemic stabilization in an interactive lab setting.
16. Verbalize the tenets of safe neural mobilization within professional yoga therapy (skilled, licensed care) practice.
17. Identify how myofascial and neurovascular restriction can be addressed through medical therapeutic yoga.
18. Utilizing current science, apply the 7 requisites for stabilization to standing postures aligned in the PYT method.
19. Demonstrate 4 blanket-folding techniques for postural modification.
20. Experience daily meditation and postural practice sequences.
21. Synthesize yoga philosophy into current evidence-based clinical practice in order to construct plans of care for persons with complex medical histories.
22. Complete business matrix analysis, including understanding legal documentation requirements for implementing business models for private or public integrated organizational medical practice.
23. Understand coding (if in USA) and billing impact practices for licensed health care professionals who become Professional Yoga Therapists.
24. Safely sequence and prescribe therapeutic yoga in realtime clinical environment(s) with your peers, using appropriate east/west medical terminology, and evidence based MTY methods.
25. Safely prescribe and prescribe therapeutic yoga in an oral practical setting with your peers.
26. Complete and pass a Mid-Term Examination to demonstrate educational competency and proficiency of the skills learned at Module 8.

Prerequisites

• Registrant must be a registered or licensed healthcare professional.
• Registrant should have at least a basic knowledge of yoga.
• Registrant must have completed online Modules 1 – 7 before attending Module 8.

Further Details for Course Materials and to REGISTER, Contact Saskatchewan College of Physical Therapy Continuing Education:

http://www.usask.ca/cpte/course-opportunities/index.php